Job Costing & Profitability: actuals vs estimates
Real-time tracking of actual job costs against estimates, read live from Spire's own job costing. It shows every job's cost, hours and margin against its estimate, and traces each figure to the Spire document behind it, so you know where a job stands while you can still act.
Key capabilities
- Actual costs tracked against estimates in real time
- Cost by source: payables, payroll, purchase orders, sales orders and journals
- Hours and margin against estimate, flagged on screen when a job runs over
- Every figure traced to the Spire document behind it
- Cost and margin by job, with each job's costs broken down by phase
The flow, end to end
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See every job at once
Every Spire job in one list, with its contract value, cost against estimate, hours against estimate, and the margin you priced against the margin you are actually making.
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Spot the ones going wrong
The spent bar keeps going past 100 percent, and a job that is over its estimate, over its hours or losing money is flagged on the list.
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Open the job
See its costs by phase and where they came from: payables, payroll, purchase orders, sales orders or journals.
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Trace it to Spire
The job ledger lists every entry with its Spire document number, so any figure can be checked in Spire itself.
A Nexus add-on module
Job Costing & Profitability reads and writes the same live data as everything else you run on Nexus, so it works in step with your other modules: no syncs, no exports. Add it on top of the platform: a flat per-company fee, no per-seat charge.
What people ask about Job Costing & Profitability
Where does the cost data come from?
From Spire's own job costing, read live. Nexus keeps no second set of job costs, so the numbers are the ones posted in Spire.
Can it change anything in Spire?
No. The job costing screens read Spire and write nothing back.
Who can see margins?
The job costing screens need the permission to view gross profit, so margins stay with the people you choose.
Can we see costs by phase?
Yes. Every job's costs break down by its Spire phases, so you can see where in the job the money is going.
Add Job Costing & Profitability to your Nexus
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